Our Latest Posts About: Organizing

One of the leading causes of clutter is taking the phrase "A place for every thing and every thing in it's place" way too literally.

As I've said in a few other posts, the first step towards a clutter free life is to stop acquiring new stuff, and one of the best ways to do that is to stop creating spaces to hold and organize your stuff.

Try to think back in time to before your clutter started to become a problem. Chances are, you had fewer places for stuff. You had fewer shelving systems, storage boxes and containers, and you probably felt a bit less stress over where to find your stuff.

There's a pretty common pattern among people who struggle with clutter. As time goes by, they acquire more stuff than they get rid of, then instead of eliminating stuff... they look for b... [More]

Before you fall in love with the latest gadget, ask yourself: "Where will it go?"

Eliminating clutter isn't easy, especially if you keep acquiring new stuff to replace the stuff you get rid of, so you need to spend just as much effort on making sure you don't add to your mess as you do cleaning it up.

It's like taking one step forward, and two steps back. Your objective is to have LESS stuff, not more, so it's essential to resist the urge to bring in new items unless it's absolutely necessary. In fact, even if you find something new that is actually useful, you still need to ask yourself "Where will it go?", because even a useful item will only add to your clutter if you don't have a place for it.

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